Get all img and pdf with php - php

Question

I'm trying to get all images from folder with php and link them with another folder where I have pdf files. The names of both are the same.
My code looks like this:
$dir_jpg = "../wp-content/uploads/newspaper/jpg/";
$dir_pdf = "../wp-content/uploads/newspaper/pdf/";
$images = glob($dir_jpg."*.*");
$pdfs = glob($dir_pdf."*.*");
$array = array_combine($images, $pdfs);
foreach($array as $image => $pdf){
echo '<ul>';
echo '<li>';
echo '<img src="'.$image.'" height="100" width="100" />';
echo '</li>';
echo '</ul>';
}
I did var_dump to check the array, but it was empty. What could be the reason my code is not working?
Update
I store my files in a wordpress folder system, but I didn't upload them through
wordpress media, so there is no records about them in database. I want to avoid it, and upload those files through ftp account and list them with a php code.
Update 2 On chat with #Gabor Klement we have got to this
$wp_root = wp_upload_dir()['baseurl'];
$dir_jpg = $wp_root."/newspaper/jpg/";
$dir_pdf = $wp_root."/newspaper/pdf/";
$images = glob($dir_jpg."*.*");
$pdfs = array();
$imgNum = count($images);
$list = '<ul>';
for ($i = 0; $i < $imgNum; $i++) {
$filename = substr(basename($images[$i]), 0, -4);
$pdfs[$i] = $dir_pdf.$filename.".pdf";
if (file_exists($dir_pdf.$filename.".pdf")) {
$list .= '<li><img src="'.$images[$i].'" height="100" width="100" /></li>';
}
}
$list .= '</ul>';
echo $list;
but for some reason wordpress is not showing those files. Funy part is that <img src="<?php echo $dir_jpg ?>/july2012.jpg" /> placed before the $list works
Update 3
the only thing that is passing paths to $images is wp_upload_dir()['basedir']; but then the wordpress creates a path like this domain.com/home/user/domains/domain/public_html/wp-content/uploads/newspaper/jpg/december2012.jpg and the image is not found.

Answer 1

I found a solution for my problem. I had to use wp_upload_dir()['basedir'] to pass the path to glob, and then wp_upload_dir()['baseurl']to pass the link to src.
Maybe it not the best solution, but it works.
$base_dir = trailingslashit(wp_upload_dir()['basedir']);
$base_url = wp_upload_dir()['baseurl'];
$dir_jpg = '/newspaper/jpg/';
$dir_pdf = '/newspaper/pdf/';
$images = glob($base_dir.$dir_jpg.'*.*');
foreach($images as $image) {
$url = $base_url.$dir_jpg.basename($image);
$filename = substr(basename($image), 0, -4);
$pdfs = $base_url.$dir_pdf.$filename.".pdf";
printf('<img src="%s" alt="'.$filename.'.pdf"><div class="newspaper-hover"></div>', esc_url($url));
}